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The Hospital

by Anna Della Subin, Lara Vergnaud, Ahmed Bouanani
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Surreal journey through illness and institutionalized fate.

"The Hospital" by Ahmed Bouanani is an immersive read that blends reality with the surreal as it examines life and death within the confines of a morbid sanatorium. Through haunting prose and vivid imagery, you’ll explore themes of existence, memory, and the blurring line between the living and the dead. If you're intrigued by the metaphorical transformation of spaces and enjoy a dive into darker, Kafkaesque narratives, this book's chillingly poetic approach to storytelling will captivate you.

  • BTBA Best Translated Book Award Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2019)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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The Hospital

by Anna Della Subin, Lara Vergnaud, Ahmed Bouanani
$10.90 Now $5.90 Save 46% more
ISBN: 9780811225762
Authors: Anna Della Subin, Lara Vergnaud, Ahmed Bouanani
Publisher: New Directions
Date of Publication: 2018-06-26
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Horror, Fantasy
Related Topics: Supernatural, Magical Realism, Dystopia, Fantasy, Asian Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.62
(rated by 328 readers)

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“When I walked through the large iron gate of the hospital, I must have still been alive…” So begins Ahmed Bouanani’s arresting, hallucinatory 1989 novel The Hospital, appearing for the first time in English translation. Based on Bouanani’s own experiences as a tuberculosis patient, the hospital begins to feel increasingly like a prison or a strange nightmare: the living resemble the dead; bureaucratic angels of death descend to direct traffic, claiming the lives of a motley cast of inmates one by one; childhood memories and fantasies of resurrection flash in and out of the narrator’s consciousness as the hospital transforms before his eyes into an eerie, metaphorical space. Somewhere along the way, the hospital’s iron gate disappears.Like Sadegh Hedayat’s The Blind Owl, the works of Franz Kafka—or perhaps like Mann’s The Magic Mountain thrown into a meat-grinder—The Hospital is a nosedive into the realms of the imagination, in which a journey to nowhere in particular leads to the most shocking places.
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Surreal journey through illness and institutionalized fate.

"The Hospital" by Ahmed Bouanani is an immersive read that blends reality with the surreal as it examines life and death within the confines of a morbid sanatorium. Through haunting prose and vivid imagery, you’ll explore themes of existence, memory, and the blurring line between the living and the dead. If you're intrigued by the metaphorical transformation of spaces and enjoy a dive into darker, Kafkaesque narratives, this book's chillingly poetic approach to storytelling will captivate you.

  • BTBA Best Translated Book Award Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2019)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.